Take Away/The Lure of Salvage
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Take Away/The Lure Of Salvage is a record containing dub versions of XTC tracks released under the "Mr. Partridge" moniker of Andy Partridge. It was released on February 29, 1980 on Virgin Records. Side A is titled "Take Away" and side B "The Lure of Salvage." Partridge made Take Away... totally royalty-free for a cost of 2,000 pounds, and asked Virgin to set the price low. Virgin sold the album with the maximum price of 3.99 pounds.
The cover picture is taken from a post card of Jayne Mansfield in a swimming pool. The figures floating on the water are hot water bottles shaped like her, some of which Partridge scribbled out.
The back cover reads as such:
"This used to be some XTC records. It is now a collection of tracks that have been electronically processed/shattered and layered with other sounds or lyrical pieces. All initial sound by XTC. Additional sound/lyrics by Andy Partridge. Put and take by John Leckie and Andy Partridge on 10/10/79. Alan Jakoby was the tapir. Destructed/constructed at Regents Park Recording Company. If you liked Go+ then this record weighs approximately the same amount."
Andy took existing XTC songs and separated different tracks from the songs to give the experiment/addition of sounds of the track a whole new identity.
Available on the Explode Together (The Dub Experiments '78-'80) CD, along with the EP Go+.
[edit] Track Listing
- "Commerciality (Signal Ad)" (Andy Partridge) (3:08)
- "The Day They Pulled The North Pole Down" (Colin Moulding/Andy Partridge) (3:50)
- "The Forgotten Language Of Light" (Andy Partridge) (4:17)
- "Steam Fist Futurist" (Andy Partridge) (3:09)
- "Shore Leave Ornithology (Another 1950)" (Andy Partridge) (5:32)
- "Cairo" (Andy Partridge) (1:52)
- "The Rotary" (Andy Partridge) (3:21)
- "Madhattan" (Colin Moulding/Andy Partridge) (3:17)
- "I Sit In The Snow" (Andy Partridge) (3:12)
- "Work Away Tokyo Day" (Colin Moulding/Andy Partridge) (4:05)
- "New Broom" (Colin Moulding/Andy Partridge) (5:27)
[edit] The Source Of The Tracks
- "Refrigeration Blues" (White Music outtake; the lyrics were a poem called "Signal Ad (Saleable Futurity").
- "Heatwave" (using the backing tracks and slowing them down).
- "Millions" (using the percussion tracks and adding guitar and ad-libbed vocals).
- "Real by Reel" (using the backing tracks and adding various sounds).
- "Pulsing Pulsing" (using the backing tracks and adding various things with poetry inspired by Charlie Parker's "Ornithology").
- "Homo Safari" (sped up backing tracks adding keyboards, vocals and handclaps).
- "Helicopter" (improvised guitar/singing/yelling over drums, bass and percussion tracks).
- "That Is The Way" (backing track with new sounds added).
- "Roads Girdle the Globe" (slowed-down backing track of the bridge with poem and sounds added).
- "Red / Day In Day Out" (original beginning, then all nine of Barry Andrews' sax parts from "Red" played simultaneously, and "Day In Day Out" sped up with a new bass line).
- "Making Plans For Nigel" (new lyrics and sounds to the backing tracks).
[edit] Personnel
- Andy Partridge - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Harmonica, Percussion & Vocals
- Barry Andrews - Keyboards, Piano, Organs, Saxophone & Vocals
- Dave Gregory - Guitars, Keyboards & Vocals
- Colin Moulding - Bass & Vocals
- Terry Chambers - Drums, Percussion & Vocals
- Dick Cuthell - Trumpet on "Madhattan (That Is The Way)"
- Marianne Partridge - Handclaps on "Cairo"